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What probability should a jury address?
Author(s) -
GardnerMedwin Tony
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2005.00076.x
Subject(s) - jury , verdict , law , psychology , political science
Probability of guilt is not the criterion on which a verdict in a criminal trial should be based, says Tony Gardner‐Medwin . The courts, quite sensibly, do not even allow access to some of the background evidence on which a proper assessment of this probability should be made. He argues that a more satisfactory criterion is the probability, or degree of belief, that the evidence could have arisen without guilt.